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Machine learning is being integrated into a growing number of critical systems with far-reaching impacts on society. Unexpected behaviour and unfair decision processes are coming under increasing scrutiny due to this widespread use and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Pieter Delobelle , Paul Temple , Gilles Perrouin , Benoît Frénay , Patrick Heymans , Bettina Berendt

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of products whose commonalities and variability can be captured by Feature Models (FMs). T-wise testing aims at finding errors triggered by all interactions amongst t features, thus reducing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Christopher Henard , Mike Papadakis , Gilles Perrouin , Jacques Klein , Patrick Heymans , Yves Le Traon

Artificial neural networks have been successfully used for many different classification tasks including malware detection and distinguishing between malicious and non-malicious programs. Although artificial neural networks perform very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Robert Podschwadt , Hassan Takabi

It is imperative to safeguard computer applications and information systems against the growing number of cyber-attacks. Automated software testing tools can be developed to quickly analyze many lines of code and detect vulnerabilities by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

The ability to deploy neural networks in real-world, safety-critical systems is severely limited by the presence of adversarial examples: slightly perturbed inputs that are misclassified by the network. In recent years, several techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nicholas Carlini , Guy Katz , Clark Barrett , David L. Dill

Machine learning models, especially neural network (NN) classifiers, have acceptable performance and accuracy that leads to their wide adoption in different aspects of our daily lives. The underlying assumption is that these models are…

Machine learning models are increasingly used in the industry to make decisions such as credit insurance approval. Some people may be tempted to manipulate specific variables, such as the age or the salary, in order to get better chances of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 Xavier Renard , Thibault Laugel , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Christophe Marsala , Marcin Detyniecki

Based on interviews with 28 organizations, we found that industry practitioners are not equipped with tactical and strategic tools to protect, detect and respond to attacks on their Machine Learning (ML) systems. We leverage the insights…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Ram Shankar Siva Kumar , Magnus Nyström , John Lambert , Andrew Marshall , Mario Goertzel , Andi Comissoneru , Matt Swann , Sharon Xia

Fueled by massive amounts of data, models produced by machine-learning (ML) algorithms, especially deep neural networks, are being used in diverse domains where trustworthiness is a concern, including automotive systems, finance, health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tommaso Dreossi , Somesh Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

Adversarial examples are inputs for machine learning models that have been designed by attackers to cause the model to make mistakes. In this paper, we demonstrate that adversarial examples can also be utilized for good to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jie Zhang , Lei Zhang , Gang Li , Chao Wu

Generating adversarial examples is the art of creating a noise that is added to an input signal of a classifying neural network, and thus changing the network's classification, while keeping the noise as tenuous as possible. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Roee Ben-Shlomo , Yevgeniy Men , Ido Imanuel

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Moreover, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Akram Heidarizadeh , Connor Hatfield , Lorenzo Lazzarotto , HanQin Cai , George Atia

Adversarial examples, which are usually generated for specific inputs with a specific model, are ubiquitous for neural networks. In this paper we unveil a surprising property of adversarial noises when they are put together, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Huishuai Zhang , Da Yu , Yiping Lu , Di He

In this paper we propose a novel method for detecting adversarial examples by training a binary classifier with both origin data and saliency data. In the case of image classification model, saliency simply explain how the model make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Chiliang Zhang , Zhimou Yang , Zuochang Ye

Adversarial examples are a type of attack on machine learning (ML) systems which cause misclassification of inputs. Achieving robustness against adversarial examples is crucial to apply ML in the real world. While most prior work on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nico Döttling , Kathrin Grosse , Michael Backes , Ian Molloy

There has been an increased interest in the application of convolutional neural networks for image based malware classification, but the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples allows malicious actors to evade classifiers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Daniel Park , Haidar Khan , Bülent Yener

We consider the problem of prediction by a machine learning algorithm, called learner, within an adversarial learning setting. The learner's task is to correctly predict the class of data passed to it as a query. However, along with queries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Prithviraj Dasgupta , Joseph B. Collins , Michael McCarrick

In addition to their security properties, adversarial machine-learning attacks and defenses have political dimensions. They enable or foreclose certain options for both the subjects of the machine learning systems and for those who deploy…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kendra Albert , Jonathon Penney , Bruce Schneier , Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev